The Dallas Observer‘s own Cheap Bastard, Alice Laussade, stopped by the Old Monk to talk about her upcoming Meat Fight fundraiser, and she brought plenty of salty language with her. Consider this your mature-content warning. Maybe skip this one if you’re listening with the kids.

District 9 Dallas City Councilman Mark Clayton stopped by the Old Monk to chat about just how much he's let power go to his head since taking his seat at City Hall in June, his soccer fandom, and which Dallas suburb he really, really, really doesn't like. Plus, iPhone roulette.

D Magazine burger editor pro tem — and sometime literary agent — David Hale Smith stopped by the Old Monk to talk about all the hunks of meat he consumed for our Best Burgers in Dallas issue and how his New York colleagues still can't understand that Dallas isn't a wasteland of wagon wheels and oil derricks.